Some insects are downright scary when you get a close look at them, but that's not the case when you look at butterfly wings ...

In 2009, a research group led by Dr. Keiichi Kakui at the Faculty of Science discovered a rather unusual small crustacean ...

Archaea are a distinct domain of life—along with bacteria and eukaryotes (i.e., organisms with a cell nucleus such as animals, plants and fungi). Although they appear similar to bacteria under the ...

The software ReciPro makes various crystallographic calculations, visualizes a crystal structure, simulates a diffraction pattern and high-resolution TEM image, indexes diffraction spots, plots ...

A £3 million electron microscope has arrived at the University of Oxford's Department of Materials. The microscope will support research across the university's departments and divisions.

and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) are powerful techniques that allow scientists to better understand the intricacies of biology, providing atomic-level insights that reveal how viruses, proteins ...

Such damage also speeds up the aging process. However, the cells are normally capable of identifying such damage and reacting. Scientists from University Hospital Düsseldorf and HHU have—in ...

In the second, Nanoscapes, she draws viewers even further inside the world of the unseen, using light and electron microscopes to magnify images of the wings up to 50,000 times their original size ...